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March 2017

Hello Amazing Western Region Art Educators!

The more you inspire,
the more you will be
Congratulations on all the wonderful Youth Art Month exhibitions
inspired!
around the region where tremendous young artiststaught by
tremendous educatorshave been celebrated and acknowledged.
Below you will find notes and reminders for our upcoming APRIL
events/deadlines. As always, if you have questions or concerns,
please feel free to email westrd@ohioarted.com

Western Region Show

Due to unforeseen challenges with space and timing, we are not having our typical Western
Region Summer Show this yearbut we do have a different exhibition opportunity for yousee
the attached flyer and entry form!
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Art enables us to find

ourselves and lose April 1: Toledo Museum of Art Field Trip
ourselves at the same Join Us to see Kehinde Wileys work
time! See the attached PDF regarding the TMA trip. Looking forward to being inspired and enjoying
your company.

April 11: WOAE Meeting

Panera Bread on Brown Street 5:30 p.m. Please join us, get involved and make YOUR region
everything you want it to be!

April 22: Watercolor Pencil Silk Screen Workshop

Use your WOAEA Credit to learn this fun, non-toxic printmaking method that can be used
in any K-12 classroom!
See the attached PDF for all the particulars.
 Sharing Space: a Teacher and Student Show
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Submission is only for ONE teacher work and ONE student work
All work must be matted or else framed
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Sharing Space Show Information:

ShowdatesareMay5th-21st
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otherwiseitisonlyopenbyappointment.
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PleasecontacteitherDardenorMegantoscheduleadropofftime
@UDFitzHall
Contact:DardenBradshaw--dbradshaw1@udayton.edu
@MiamisburgMiddleSchool
Contact:MeganNewton--mnewton@miamisburg.k12.oh.us

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 Join us on our FIELD TRIP to the
Toledo Museum of Art
to see the
Kehinde Wiley Exhibition

Kehinde Wiley

When: April 1, 2017, Saturday

Departure from: UD Fitz Hall parking lot (corner of Brown

Street and K, across from Holy Angels school).
Departure time: 8:30 am

We will head to the TMAshould take about 2 hours and 15

minutes, (expected arrival around 11). We will spend the
morning/afternoon at the TMA. Depart TMA at 2:30pm
(expected arrival back in Dayton about 5).

RSVP to Darden by 3/29 at westrd@ohioarted.com

Let Darden know in the email if you want to ride with someone
else or if you are willing to be a driver.
WOAEA INVTES YOU TO SPACE FOR 12
SCREEN PRINTING WITH PARTICIPANTS!
WATERCOLOR PENCILS DESCRIPTION:
PRESENTED BY Learn to apply mono print

EMILY SULLIVAN-SMITH techniques to silkscreen.

Participants will develop
imagery using water colors

WHEN and water color pencils

applied directly onto a

Saturday; screen. This non-toxic

April 22 9:00am-1 pm
WHERE
UD; Art & Design; Fitz Hall
300 College Park | Dayton, OH
technique is exciting and
reveals the potentials for
working back into the prints
with mixed media
or multiple layers of print!
COST
$40/person

Notes: Each participant

will have the opportunity
to create four (4) 11 X 15
and one (1) 22 x 15
completed prints. You may
bring drawings or
photographs (source
imagery) youd like to
work with. Imagery is
provided for those who
dont wish to bring their
own.

RSVP:Email Darden
dbradshaw1@udayt
on.edu or
westrd@ohioarted.
Plastic Islands Emily Sullivan Smith
com

*credit for WOAEA